What can you do to assure when you adopt a cat that you get a "comfort" cat that likes to cuddle? I have an autistic cat -- "Pet me. Don't touch me! Pet me. Don't touch me!" and also an aloof cat: "I might let you pet me once in a while, but only when I feel like it."

gregscott:What can you do to assure when you adopt a cat that you get a "comfort" cat that likes to cuddle? I have an autistic cat -- "Pet me. Don't touch me! Pet me. Don't touch me!" and also an aloof cat: "I might let you pet me once in a while, but only when I feel like it."

If I were to place an over-sized litterbox on the plains of the Serengeti, would your average serval or caracal instinctively take a shiat in it? Why or why not?I, like most middle-aged men, MUST KNOW THE ANSWER!

A year or so back my dog kept finding half eaten hares that were neatly eaten from the nose down (spinal column excepted). What British predator is big and fast enough to catch an adult hare that eats it's prey such a precise way*?(Reminded me very much of the way our house cats eat mice and rodents, except that a hare is WAY too big and strong for a domestic kitty...)

/* Not foxes, badgers or dogs. I know what their aftermath looks like.

basemetal:I know some credible people that have seen black cougars/panthers in the south canadian river area in Oklahoma, yet every game warden and biologist says there is no way. Are the authorities wrong?

I saw a puma in Noble county along the Black Bear Creek, but it was the normal, tan-ish color with darker shading along is back and tail. Maybe if a person just got a glimpse of a cougar's back in low light conditions, they might be fooled into thinking it was all dark/black.

A friend of mine who thinks he is real smart went on a safari to Africa. When he got back I asked him what he did. He said he spotted a leopard. I laughed my ass off at that one. Doesn't he know they come that way?

gregscott:What can you do to assure when you adopt a cat that you get a "comfort" cat that likes to cuddle? I have an autistic cat -- "Pet me. Don't touch me! Pet me. Don't touch me!" and also an aloof cat: "I might let you pet me once in a while, but only when I feel like it."

Cats do tend to have a genetic aspect to their temperament which is often linked to their coat genetics.

In my experience, get a solid gray (sometimes call "blue") or a Siamese.

ethics-gradient:A year or so back my dog kept finding half eaten hares that were neatly eaten from the nose down (spinal column excepted). What British predator is big and fast enough to catch an adult hare that eats it's prey such a precise way*?(Reminded me very much of the way our house cats eat mice and rodents, except that a hare is WAY too big and strong for a domestic kitty...)

/* Not foxes, badgers or dogs. I know what their aftermath looks like.

TheShavingofOccam123:ethics-gradient: A year or so back my dog kept finding half eaten hares that were neatly eaten from the nose down (spinal column excepted). What British predator is big and fast enough to catch an adult hare that eats it's prey such a precise way*?(Reminded me very much of the way our house cats eat mice and rodents, except that a hare is WAY too big and strong for a domestic kitty...)

/* Not foxes, badgers or dogs. I know what their aftermath looks like.

gregscott:What can you do to assure when you adopt a cat that you get a "comfort" cat that likes to cuddle? I have an autistic cat -- "Pet me. Don't touch me! Pet me. Don't touch me!" and also an aloof cat: "I might let you pet me once in a while, but only when I feel like it."

Barndad:Puma are only found in southern Florida on the east coast. They may be expanding in range in the northeast. One was shot in Lake Abitibi in 1992 and tracks were found in New Brunswick in 1993

While hunting we found them in the panhandle around Tallahassee in the 60's and 70's. I've seen two in my life and evidence of one other in the form of tracks. Regardless of what biologists say their range is farther north and west than has been claimed.